Journal article
A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity
Nature, Vol.551, pp.457-463
2017
Abstract
Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA sequencing, a lack of standardized protocols and common analytical frameworks impedes comparisons among studies, hindering the development of global inferences about microbial life on Earth. Here we present a meta-analysis of microbial community samples collected by hundreds of researchers for the Earth Microbiome Project. Coordinated protocols and new analytical methods, particularly the use of exact sequences instead of clustered operational taxonomic units, enable bacterial and archaeal ribosomal RNA gene sequences to be followed across multiple studies and allow us to explore patterns of diversity at an unprecedented scale. The result is both a reference database giving global context to DNA sequence data and a framework for incorporating data from future studies, fostering increasingly complete characterization of Earth's microbial diversity.
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- A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity
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- L R Thompson (Author)Jon G Sanders (Author)Daniel McDonald (Author)Amnon Amir (Author)Joshua Ladau (Author)Kenneth J Locey (Author)Robert J Prill (Author)Anupriya Tripathi (Author)Sean M Gibbons (Author)Gail Ackermann (Author)Jose A Navas-Molina (Author)Stefan Janssen (Author)Evguenia Kopylova (Author)Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza (Author)Antonio González (Author)James T Morton (Author)Siavash Mirarab (Author)Zhenjiang Zech Xu (Author)Lingjing Jiang (Author)Mohamed F Haroon (Author)Jad Kanbar (Author)Qiyun Zhu (Author)Se Jin Song (Author)Tomasz Kosciolek (Author)Nicholas A Bokulich (Author)Joshua Lefler (Author)Colin J Brislawn (Author)Gregory Humphrey (Author)Sarah M Owens (Author)Jarrad Hampton-Marcell (Author)Donna Berg-Lyons (Author)Valerie McKenzie (Author)Noah Fierer (Author)Jed A Fuhrman (Author)Aaron Clauset (Author)Rick L Stevens (Author)Ashley Shade (Author)Katherine S Pollard (Author)Kelly D Goodwin (Author)Janet K Jansson (Author)Jack A Gilbert (Author)Rob Knight (Author)Jose L Agosto Rivera (Author)Lisa Al-Moosawi (Author)John Alverdy (Author)Katherine R Amato (Author)Jason Andras (Author)Largus T Angenent (Author)Dionysios A Antonopoulos (Author)Amy Apprill (Author)David Armitage (Author)Kate Ballantine (Author)Jirˇí Bárta (Author)Julia K Baum (Author)Allison Berry (Author)Ashish Bhatnagar (Author)Monica Bhatnagar (Author)Jennifer F Biddle (Author)Lucie Bittner (Author)Bazartseren Boldgiv (Author)Eric Bottos (Author)Donal M Boyer (Author)Josephine Braun (Author)William Brazelton (Author)Francis Q Brearley (Author)Alexandra H Campbell (Author) - University of New South WalesJ Gregory Caporaso (Author)Cesar Cardona (Author)JoLynn Carroll (Author)S Craig Cary (Author)Brenda B Casper (Author)Trevor C Charles (Author)Haiyan Chu (Author)Danielle C Claar (Author)Robert G Clark (Author)Jonathan B Clayton (Author)Jose C Clemente (Author)Alyssa Cochran (Author)Maureen L Coleman (Author)Gavin Collins (Author)Rita R Colwell (Author)Mónica Contreras (Author)Benjamin B Crary (Author)Simon Creer (Author)Daniel A Cristol (Author)Byron C Crump (Author)Duoying Cui (Author)Sarah E Daly (Author)Liliana Davalos (Author)Russell D Dawson (Author)Jennifer Defazio (Author)Frédéric Delsuc (Author)Hebe M Dionisi (Author)Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello (Author)Robin Dowell (Author)Eric A Dubinsky (Author)Danilo Ercolini (Author)Robert E Espinoza (Author)Vanessa Ezenwa (Author)Nathalie Fenner (Author)Helen S Findlay (Author)Irma D Fleming (Author)Vincenzo Fogliano (Author)Anna Forsman (Author)Chris Freeman (Author)Elliot S Friedman (Author)Giancarlo Galindo (Author)Liza Garcia (Author)Maria Alexandra Garcia-Amado (Author)David Garshelis (Author)Robin B Gasser (Author)Gunnar Gerdts (Author)Molly K Gibson (Author)Isaac Gifford (Author)Ryan T Gill (Author)Tugrul Giray (Author)Antje Gittel (Author)Peter Golyshin (Author)Donglai Gong (Author)Hans-Peter Grossart (Author)Kristina Guyton (Author)Sarah-Jane Haig (Author)Vanessa Hale (Author)Ross Stephen Hall (Author)Steven J 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- Publication details
- Nature, Vol.551, pp.457-463
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.1038/nature24621
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
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- School of Health - Biomedicine; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451001702621
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- Journal article
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